First Baptist Church of Williamsburg
9781467172745
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Learn the history of one of the oldest Black churches in the United States.
The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Virginia, stands as a living monument to the enduring power and resilience of its congregation. Beginning in the hush harbors on plantations owned by Virginia’s most powerful leadership, First Baptist emerged as a powerful force, inextricably linking religious salvation and education as tools of liberation and agency for Africans in America. The church was involved in the American Revolution and the Civil War, thus sealing its place as a key player in Williamsburg. Through the antebellum period, Reconstruction, and modern times, First Baptist and its congregation also resisted the growth of slavery, the dissipation of the rights of free Black people, and the removal of Black-owned homes and businesses.
A powerful icon for freedom, resilience, and hope, the church reflects the larger story of Black voices in Virginia and America.
Haunted Fauquier County
9781467170284
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%With over 250 years of history, Fauquier County’s old homes and Civil War sites vibrate with ghostly energy.
Spectral figures haunt the old grounds of Grace Church. A headless ghost and a white calf appear in Throughfare Gap. The spirit of a whistling Confederate soldier appears in a home near St. Stephens, and Colonel Mosby’s wife, Pauline, has been seen wandering her home at Brentmoor. The Grey Lady of Avenel wanders through the woods to Kinloch, and the shades of the Nourse family and their caretaker, Eliza Redd, still make themselves known at Weston.
Join local historian Meaghan Reddick as she delves between the seen and the unseen worlds of Fauquier’s historic haunts.
